I can understand your confusion John. It confuses me why people collect paintings to store them too, and those people that collect cars and never drive them. But i can understand people who collect Japanese Swords and never use them, and therefore, knives. It's the extreme end of enjoying a visit to the Royal Armories and museums, and I like that peoples work is being preserved for future generations. If I was a knife maker, I'd like to see some of my work surviving into the future a little longer than most.
The poll also is showing that the majority who do collect, buy duplicates to use and enjoy too.
I've enjoyed this thread and peoples views on the subject. I'll give it another week or so before compiling the results.
I am not trying to p-ss off anyone with my reply,its just how i saw things.
If I was a knifemaker,i´d like to see some of my work surviving into the future a little longer than most too,but id like to see it as used,with history,with scars,to show that it had survived real life,that it had been used and it has served its masters well without failing,so nobody could say its was just a crappy POS with nice looks
.But hey,its just my brain,no offence.
I f i get my hands on woodlore for some mental misfunction,on my head or someone elses,im sure i will be anxious to baton it thru logs,hack it thru ice,etc,as id like to see how capable it is,compared to all the cheaper clones of it,as i have some hunch that there are knives just as,or better knives,looking just like woodlore but without markings on blade that arent changing the performance of blade into any direction.
again,no offence,guys.ill shut my trap.